Unit power classes at finite places #
At a finite place v of a number field K not dividing n, the units of the completed
integer ring have as many n-th power classes as there are n-th roots of unity in K_v.
If K contains these roots, the count is n, and consequently the product of these unit
quotients over a finite set T has n ^ #T elements.
This is the local cardinality input to the S-unit surjectivity argument in the Kummer proof
of the second fundamental inequality.
The local calculation is TauCeti.card_integerUnitPowerClasses_of_isUnit, transported along
the existing identification HeightOneSpectrum.integerEquivAdicCompletionIntegers of the
two integer-ring presentations of the completion.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Class Field Theory, VII, proof of Lemma 6.9.
For nonzero n, the n-th powers of the completed integer-ring units have finite index.
For nonzero n, the power-map range on completed integer-ring units has finite index.
For nonzero n, the power-class quotient of the completed integer-ring units is finite.
At a finite place away from n, the completed integer-ring units have as many n-th
power classes as there are n-th roots of unity in the completion.
At a finite place away from n, the completed integer-ring units have n power classes
if the number field contains the n-th roots of unity.
The product of local unit power-class counts. If K contains μ_n and T is a finite
set of finite places avoiding n, then the product of the orders of their unit power-class
quotients is n ^ #T.